Tom Beaulieu

Right now there are nine of those 19 jobs. Well, as of October 31st, when those vacancies were identified, we proceeded to try to fill nine of those jobs, so either those jobs have been filled or are in the process of being filled. Then there is also the possibility that there have been more vacancies created. On average, the jobs that we go to fill are being filled in the same time period as other jobs across the territory.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is no money in this budget for dredging Hay River, the port or the rest of the Hay River.

We can send the report to committee or any of the Members that wish to review the report. The report is mostly a report on what the current situation is. It’s not something that is, in the sense, something we could do something with as far as the governance goes. So, what we’re doing is we’re asking a consultant to look at the report and put it in terms where we can look at and determine whether or not it would be something that would be feasible to move forward with.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We will work with the city to try to find a safer way for pedestrians to come into the city for work and back to Niven. We know that the ideal situation, of course, and the safest situation is for the pedestrians just to stay on the city roads and come into town on the other side of Niven, recognizing that‘s a long ways, especially for the people that live on this end of Niven. But it’s just that we are finding that any time you cross, we create an unsafe… Whether we’re crossing right at Niven or crossing at the Legislative Assembly, both of the crossings on that road...

Thank you, Madam Chair. We’ve completed a report on the governance of the Yellowknife Airport, and we now have a consultant looking at that and looking at the options. Most likely, if there’s going to be privatization or a change in the way the governance at the Yellowknife Airport occurs, then it will probably be something that would be decided at the next Assembly.

Madam Chair, we do not have a time frame as to when this solution will come about.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The new Building Canada Plan that we’re launching into now is not reflected on this page.

Madam Chair, the bundles are more than one fiscal year, but I’ll have the deputy minister respond so we can provide a little more detail on how the bundles work.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just quickly, the plan is, on the first bundle of Building Canada Plan, we’ll first go through a supplementary appropriation. We have earmarked $4.5 million annually in the first bundle. So, it’s the first four years of the plan, although the plan runs nine years.

The overflow situation that we had talked about just recently, the Member thought there were some solutions that were applicable in the Yukon. Maybe the weather might be a little bit different, but possibly if it’s further north on the Dempster and a solution is working, we can look at that. The deputy minister...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We agree that the ferry operations in the Beaufort-Delta went very well this year. I do believe traffic was closed for one day only. I’m sorry, I had an understanding it was only closed for one day for regular traffic. The deputy minister tells me it was actually eight days. I don’t know if that was heavy traffic. I guess on average we were closed for eight days.

The aviation scholarship is something that people do benefit from. We do have a reduction in that scholarship this year, but we’re also re-examining how we can use that scholarship money.

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